spec det 9... fight stun/gun caster... collect your rps

 

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Yes, because all classes spec Det9

Makes perfect sense to me!

 

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You could put together a not-shitty template so you don't die in the duration of a stun. Resist pierce doesn't work on stun so with CL buff it's like a 5-second stun. The dangerous casters are the ones that know how to kite, and they'd kill you just as dead without stun.

hi, I play hib these days.

my original post was noting the irony about how four years ago everyone complained about not only baseline stun for hibernia casters, but that some of the hibernia casters with baseline stun could debuff their own damage type.

after dying to an air theurg's stunlock on my bard last night I'm never playing my albs again.

 

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all the important classes can!

 

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10 years of effort to change the duration of one style from 9 seconds to 5 seconds. Ok I guess I like that.

 

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True RP doesn't affect CC, but Duration does and it is capped at 25% and not 10%.

Thus, factoring in 25% Duration...

9s * 1.25 * .64 = 7s

So it's up to 7s stun against 36% resists, and that my friend is a guaranteed death to anyone but a pure tank class if Purge is down.


It is simply bad game design to put stun-type CC on a class with high DPS.

It just plain is, and has nothing to do with anyone whining, etc.


Dieing to a single attacker, from 100% down to death, while you're unable to move or do anything constructive the entire time, is just plain lame and involves exactly zero player-skill.

The victim is completely pulled out of his suspension of disbelief by this act, and can not possibly enjoy this experience as either fun or constructive. If you die in a fight where you get to act & react to your opponents moves, it's still fun to die. If you die in a situation where you feel you could have done something better, it's a learning-experience and that's fun too. If you die to a poor game mechanic, you're not having fun and thus get pulled out of your suspension of disbelief of the game. (And that usually leads to /region or VN whines, which often pull more players out of their suspension of disbelief of the game. If you're having fun you don't whine/complain nearly as much, because you're engrossed in the game you're playing and the fun you're having! So clearly, this mechanic is simply bad game design.)

Stun->DPS was lame on Scouts, is lame on tanks still (when you're caught by one, which slightly balances it at least), is lame on Assassins when they PA->CD gib a Caster (but it at least requires some measure of skill to land the PA!), etc.

In GvG this is not an issue, because it also requires the failure of another part (or parts) of the team, but it also wouldn't hurt GvG at all to nerf all of this silliness in order to make 1v1 and small-scale a little less ridiculous. So much of those sub-games revolve around stuns that it just takes away from the skill factor, and that in turn means a detriment to the fun-factor as well.


Just my 2 cents on this old dead horse debate...

 

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think of daoc like a puzzle you're putting together.
you might not understand where, why, or how a piece fits,
yet it ends up being part of such a beautiful picture in the end.
stun is that piece in the puzzle you don't understand yet.

 

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